Boss GT 1000Core

Messing with the compressors in the core, I’ve landed on the regular “boss comp” option. Sounds fat and punchy without adding or losing too much of anything. X bass adds too much bass for me, x comp adds too much brittle high. Boss comp for me, for now.


But… do I still need to buy the empress…?

Correlli said:

My understanding is Direct Mix is a side process to the X-Comp. I like it because I have overdrive and distortion before compression. So the OD signal is going through the Direct Mix with no Compression. Or it it could be purely a clean signal. There's so many combinations with the GT 1000/Core.


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I am still confused by this. I thought direct mix was the same as blend. So direct mix at 100 is 100% dry and direct mix at 0 is 100% wet. But it isn’t?

Correlli said:

The manual says for the Direct Mix, “adjusts the volume of the direct sound.”

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So in that case you would say that it is the same as blend. Since that’s how mix knobs normally work. But setting direct mix to 100 doesn’t sound the same as 100 % dry (clean without any compression). So my assumption is that direct mix at 100 means 50% dry/50% wet. But I am not sure and it is not logical to me.

edit: I also notice that setting direct mix to 100 results in a more hollow mid rangy sound, like it's a phasing problem. That's why I always leave at 0.
Especially noticeable on X comp and X bass comp.

Someone else have a final conclusion on this direct mix 'knob'?